Because It's Friday: The Rave Archive

Rave's Golden Age may have come and gone but the mixtapes, memories and pictures of ecstatic clubbers with eyes like giant squid live on thanks to the efforts of the collective at the Rave Archive.

Thousands of underground zines from across the world are collected here alongside a comprehensive selection of downloadable mixes to document the '90s dance music community. It's awesome stuff if you ever wondered what life was like when the British Parliament went so far as to ban public gatherings that featured dancing to 'music with repetitive beats' through the Criminal Justice Bill in the hopes of foiling the growing rave scene. Like jazz, rock and roll and hip-hop before it, rave culture soon found its way to the mainstream and the outlaw spirit moved on - not before giving us these incredible treats though. Reach for the lasers.

hope you guys will make a new midnight club with the same type of trance music that u guys put on midnight club 2... that game introduce me to new styles of EDM (electronic dance music) that i have never heard before, now im really into hard trance and hardstyle and hope to see the midnight club series get back to its roots... the underground racing culture.

I get a clean shave then bathe and go to a "Rave" and die from an overdose just to dig myself up outta my grave!!!
We need SF-UR and some of that "House Music" in GTAV. IT would not be GTA without "House Music"
I had a feeling R* liked going to Raves, me too. But not since 2004 or 2005 I belive, and that's when I lived in Arizona. Not many Raves that I know of going on here in Virginia.
I really do like and enjoy the articles on here, one reason I check the R* Newswire everyday, rain, sleet, snow or shine

I Preffer The Old Musics, But The Eletro's Still In My Mind... Like Blondie- Heart Of Glass:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_4-5RaxU&ob=av2e
Or Atomic... Or Some Of Frankie Goes To Hllywood Or Depeche Mode...

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